On 15.08.2016 at 15:01 Uhr -0400 Bill Cole apparently wrote:
On 15 Aug 2016, at 9:40, Robert Brenstein wrote:
At first glance, it looks like the script that does the upgrade
failed to remove the old icon from the dock.
That's not how it works. Apps (and their installers) don't manage
their own icons in the Dock.
The icon you see in the Dock is determined by Launch Services, a Mac
OS X subsystem that keeps track of file types and associated "kind"
strings, icons, URL scheme associations (and probably other details
that are slipping my mind...) for all apps. Launch Services is
essentially the MacOS X replacement for the Finder's "desktop" files
in classic MacOS. It has difficulties with edge cases like the
existence of multiple versions of an app in different places that
both are represented in metadata (Spotlight) indices. The most an
app installer can do is explicitly tell LS to register an app that
it has just installed, however it sometimes seems like LS doesn't do
as it is told. If I knew why this was, I'd be sending my resume to
Apple because no one there has been able to work it out for about a
decade...
I meant the script in the installer. I do realize that you did not
write that code. Aynway, it is not a real issue. I reported it
because this is the first time ever I saw this but apparently I have
only been lucky until now ;-)
Robert
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